My world has been all about form design for the last few weeks.
So following up from my exciting exposés on affordances and signifiers (making a button look like a button) and what to do with Date of Birth capture (following user research evidence not OS patterns), I recently had to find an answer to the question — do we need two form fields to validate/verify password at sign up?
Do we need two form fields to verify password at sign up?
Because It Depends is the answer to every question, I always like to revisit what I think best practice is, so that I’m giving clients current, evidence-based advice, rather than making sh1t up.
What is this design pattern I’m talking about?
Password verification usually appears as two similar form fields together, as part of a sign up or registration form.. e.g.:
